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The Nishikata Exclave
1media/Ono Domain Territory_thumb.png2020-01-09T19:05:41-05:00Maren Ehlers18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31d3510Ōno's domain territory within Echizen province, with the Nishikata exclave in the West. Click on and hover over the image for annotations.plain2020-12-10T17:49:03-05:00Maren Ehlers, “Ōno-han no Koshirō – han shakai no naka no hinin shūdan, ” in Toshi no shūen ni ikiru, ed. Tsukada Takashi, 87-120 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2006).Maren EhlersME-0011Maren Ehlers18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31d
12020-12-10T17:45:27-05:00Maren Ehlers18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31dCastle town of ŌnoMaren Ehlers1plain2020-12-10T17:45:27-05:00Maren Ehlers18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31d
12020-12-10T17:45:52-05:00Maren Ehlers18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31dCastle town of FukuiMaren Ehlers1plain2020-12-10T17:45:52-05:00Maren Ehlers18502c6775e5db37b999ee7b08c8c075867ca31d
1media/shugyutosho.background.jpegmedia/Ono Domain Territory.png2019-11-18T17:16:30-05:00Vaccinating the Nishikata Exclave25plain42482020-12-20T18:36:07-05:00Maren Ehlers
The Nishikata exclave of Ōno domain was located in Niu County, about 30 kilometers west of Ōno domain's castle town in the hill country between Echizen’s lowland corridor and the Sea of Japan. Two of its twelve villages bordered directly on the coast. In 1850, Ōno domain established a rural intendant’s (daikan) office in Nishikata because the exclave had become increasingly important for the domain’s responsibilities in coastal defense. The intendant’s office was placed in the fief’s main village—Ota, a rural center of about 1,000 inhabitants. The people of Nishikata had few social ties with fellow subjects in the core part of Ōno's domain territory. Their villages and other kinds of occupation-based status associations were not usually integrated with those in Ōno proper.
It is unclear whether and when Ōno’s vaccinators attempted to bring the vaccine to Nishikata. But their colleagues in the vaccinators’ association of Echizen certainly deemed Ōno's vaccinators responsible for vaccination-related matters within that exclave. Kasahara Ryōsaku had two separate exchanges with Ōno's domain physicians Nakamura Taisuke and Hayashi Unkei that clarified his expectations regarding Nishikata, and his thoughts about the relationship between domain rule and the vaccinators' association more generally. The first of these exchanges dates to 1853.
